Festoon drapery



Dec. 1, 1964 s. H. SUSNOW FESTOON DRAPERY Filed Feb. 11, 1965 INVENTOR. 5404 H 5'us/vaw iMZAzZEZ l 524, mad w a United States Patent 3,159,206 FESTOQN DRAPERY Saul H. Susnow, 116 S. Sycamore, Los Angeles 36, Calif. Filed Feb. 11, 1963, Ser. No. 257,532 6 Claims. (Cl. 160-330) This invention relates to swag or festoon draperies, and is directed especially to improvements in the mode of adjustment of festooned draperies for anygiven size of window or doorway opening, and to improvements pertaining to the cleanability of festoon draperies.

The swag or festoon drapery of the prior art generally is sold to the customer pre-folded in the desired configuration, and is expensive. Further, very little, if any, adjustability of the drapery is possible. And, further still, a pre-folded drapery cannot be dry-cleaned Without incurring a large expense due to the multiplicity of folds present. The present invention is designed to avoid these deficiencies of the prior art. 1

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wherein the festoon is made from a flat piece of material and is adjustable to varying window or door widths.

The configuration of the initial piece of drapery material for the swag effect is shown clearly in FIGURES 2 and 3. The drapery material 10 is initially fiat, and has, preferably, a generally elongated rectangular backing or attachment section 12, centrally attached to a generally triangular swag section 14. The sections 12 and 14 are preferably made of a single piece of material. The attachment section 12 is adapted to be mounted to a board placed across a window. Section 12 has affixed thereto any one of a variety of fastening means employed to achieve the festoon, as will be described hereinafter. The swag section 14 of the drapery material It) is somewhat modified from the triangular configuration by (a) being truncated along its line of juncture with the attachment section 12, (b) having deeply scalloped edges It is, therefore, a major object of the present invention to provide a swag or festoon drapery which is readily adjustable for various sizes of openings in windows, doorways, and the like, which adjustment is simple and inexpensive.

It is a further object of the present invention to provide a swag or festoon drapery which, when sold to the ultimate user, takes the form of a fiat sheet of drapery material, and is therefore relatively inexpensive; and which, when hung, in accordance with a set of simple instructions, produces a swag or festoon drapery treatment having a multiplicity of smooth folds.

These and other objects of the present invention will become clearly understood by referring to the following description, and to the accompanying drawings in which:

FIGURE 1 is a perspective view of the festoon drapery shown in final draped position on a window;

FIGURE 2 is a view, in side elevation, of my festoon drapery, shown prior to being draped;

FIGURE 3 is a fragmentary plan view of my festoon drapery; and

FIGURE 4 is a fragmentary perspective .view of one modification of my festoon drapery treatment.

In general, my invention comprises a flat, generally triangular piece of drapery material having peripheral cut-out portions and an elongated, generally rectangular fabric piece attached thereto. The triangular piece is provided with fastening points ormeans mounted between. the cut-out portions. The rectangular piece of drapery material is attached to a board placed across or above window or door openings so that the base of the triangular piece of drapery material is lowermost.

The sides of the triangular piece of drapery material are then attached to any one of a plurality of cooperating, spaced, detachable fastening points or means provided on the drapery material attached to the board. In this way, a very smooth swag or festoon effect is obtained that is both adjustable to a given width of opening, and is readily detachable from the board for cleaning as a fiat piece of material.

Referring now specifically to FIGURES l, 2 and 3 of the drawings, one preferred embodiment of a finished swag or festoon drapery of my invention is shown,

forming a series of generally triangular swag points 16a, 16b, 16c, 16d, 16e, 16] along the sides of the swag section, and (c) by having its lowermost edge 18 gently curved. The provision of cut-outs or spaces 17 between adjacent swag points insures the smoothness of the folds of the festoon. Each of the swag points 16a through 16) has an opening 19 or other fastening means provided therein for the fastening thereof to a designated section on the attachment section 12 of the drapery material in the manner to be set forth.

The backing or attachment portion 12 of drapery material 10 is attached to a board 20, which board has been previously mounted across or above a window opening or door opening in any conventional manner. The backing portion 12 is centrally located on the board 26, and is firmly mounted onto both the vertical and horizontal faces 22, 24 of the board 29 by means of tacks (not shown) or other readily detachable fastening means. The fabric backing 12 is made sufiiciently long so as to extend over the maximum width to be encountered within the limits of adjustment claimed by the manufacturer. Thus, if the drapery is to have an adjustabiiity of between 4' and 6', the backing piece 12 is made 6' long. If the width of the window opening is less than 6', e.g., 5, then the backing piece 12 is folded under at its ends so that its total width becomes 5. The phantom lines 23 in FIGURES 2 and 3 indicate the excess end portions in such a situation.

The backing piece 12, when thus attached to the board 20, serves several functions. First, the section of the backing portion 12 covering the vertical face 22 of the board 20 serves to prevent any part of the board from showing, even if the swag is later incorrectly mounted, or if the finished width of the swag is narrower than the width of the opening. Second, each of the ends of the backing 12 carries, in the preferred embodiment, indexing means in the form of a grid pattern 30, whereby a user can select a series of points on the grid, as attachment locations for the swag 16a through 16 The swag points 16a through 16f are usually attached to the portion of the grid pattern 30 that lies in a horizontal plane, i.e., on that portion of the grid that is attached to the horizontal surface 24 of board 20.

The points of the grid pattern are preferably referenced 'by letter and by number, although any other suitable reference system can be employed. Thus, fastening points 2A, 2B, 2C, 2D, 2E and 2F can be employed to released and is devoid of folds.

amazes 3 create a narrow, deep swag effect by merely attaching swag points 16a, 16b, 16c, led lde and 16 to these reference points by means of tacks passing through openings 19, or by means of other readily detachable fasteners. on the other hand, if a wider, relatively shallow swag effect is obtained, swag points 16a through 16 may be attached at reference points 2A, 2C, 2E, 26, 21 and 2K. The swag effect thus obtained is shown in FIGURE 1. Other festoon effects can be achieved by attaching the swag points 16a through 16 to a series of reference points forming a diagonal line.

In the attachment of adjacent swag points to reference .points, it will be seen that the reference points must be spaced closer together than the normal distance between, adjacent swag points when the drapery material lies flat.

vThe normal distance between adjacent swag points is generally about 2" to 5" for 'a 4 "to 6 finished width of iestoon.

The provision of cut-outs 17, along the sides of the swag material 14, insures that no bunching of material will occur at or near the attachment or reference points on the backing material 12. p In this way thefolds of the finished swag'are smoothly draped without wrinkling.

It will be understood that other readily detachable fastening means can be used to attach the swag points 16 to the more closely spaced reference points. Thus, hooks and eyes, mating snap fasteners, and the like can be employed, rather than tacking as has been described.

The attachment of the swag points to the integral backing piece 12-can also, be accomplished by joining the tips of adjacent swag points with an elasticized strip of material. The back of the elasticized strip has attached thereto a series of fastening means such as snap fasteners. The swag points can then be attached to the desired points on the backing piece by means of the elasticized strip. Additionally, the'swag points can be stretched somewhat to thereby extend the effective width of the festoon In FIGURE 4, a plurality of closely spaced eye fasteners 4th: through 40k are affixed to each of the ends of the backing piece 42, and are adapted to mate with cooperat ing hooks 43 aflixed to the underside of swag points 440 through 44 The eye fasteners are spaced closer together (e.g., /2 to 1'') than the distance between adjacent swag points when the drapery material lies flat, as in the preferred embodiment. Again, the provision of cut-outs 46 between swag points insures the smoothness of the final draping effect and, as in the preferred embodiment, a great degree of adjustability is possible by merely choosing which fasteners on the backing piece 42 are to be employed in conjunction with the hooks 43 on the swag points. If the backing piece 42 is too long for a particular width of window, the extra length can be merely cut off the ends, as described with reference to the preferred embodiment. V T

In order to remove the drapery materiallt) for clea ing, the swag point fastening means is merely removed; Then the tacks, holding the'backing piece to the mounting board, are removed. The entire drapery material is thus No problem in cleaning is thus encountered. I V t It will be seen that an adjustable swag treatment has been provided, formed from a single flat piece of material in which no'permanent folds have been made. Several embodiments of my invention have been shown and described. Other changes and modifications will be ap-[ Therefore, I intend I claim: i r

l. A festoon draper, which comprises:

a generally rectangular piece of fiat drapery material having a grid reference system imprinted thereon at the ends thereof forming --a plurality of spaced fastening points;

i and a truncated generally triangular piece of flat drapery material integrally, afiixed to, and between the ends of said rectangular piece, the sides of said triangular piece of material having fastening points thereon. 2. A swag drapery, which comprises: a generally rectangular piece of flat material having a grid reference system imprinted thereon at the ends thereof forming a plurality of spaced fastening points;

- and a truncated generally triangular piece of flat drapery swag material integrally aflixedto, and between the ends of, said rectangular piece, the. sides of said triangular piece of drapery material being scalloped, thereby forming a plurality of swag points, each of said swag points having-fastening means thereon cooperating with said spaced fastening points whereby to obtain a swag drapery. I

3. A swag drapery which comprises:

a generally rectangular piece of flat material having a grid reference system thereon at the ends thereof forming a plurality of spaced fastening points; and a truncated generally triangular piece of flat drapery swag material integrally aflixed to, and between the ends of, said rectangular piece, the sides of said triangular piece of drapery material being scalloped, thereby forming a plurality of swag points, each of 7 said swag points having fastening means thereon cooperating with said spaced fastening points whereby to obtain a swag drapery. 4. An adjustable festoon drapery, comprising: an attachment piece of flat drapery material having a central portion and outwardly extending opposing end portions;

a truncated, generally triangular piece of drapery ma terial with its top extending from a forward edge of said central portion and said end portions extending laterally outward beyond the top of said triangular 2 piece, said triangular piece having a curved lowermost edge and scalloped sides forming a plurality of spaced generally triangular swag points each havan apex portion; and means attaching to said swag points for individually fastening said swag points to different spaced points on a corresponding end portion of said attachment piece to form a festoon drapery.

5. An adjustable festoon drapery, comprising:

a fiatattachment piece having a central portion and outwardly extending opposing end portions; a generally triangular piece of drapery material with its top extending from said central portion and said 7 end portion extending laterally outward beyond the top of said triangular piece, said triangular piece having scallopeds'ides forming a plurality of generally triangular swag points each having an apex .portion; and means operatively associated with said swag points and said end portions of said attachment piece for individually fastening said swag points to different spaced points on a corresponding end portion of said attachment piece to form a festoon drapery.

6. 'Anadjustable festoon drapery, comprising a generally rectangular piece of fiat drapery material having a central portion and outwardly extending opposing end portions; I i

a generally triangular'piece of drapery material with its top extending from said central portion and said end portions extending laterally beyond the top of said triangular piece, said triangular piece having scalloped sides forming a plurality of swag points spaced along 5 its edges; and means operatively associated with said swag points and said end portions for individually fastening said swag points to different spaced points on a corresponding end portion to form a festoon drapery.

References Cited by the Examiner UNITED STATES PATENTS D. 168,135 11/52 Yorkavage 160-19 X 6 Replogle 160-38 Heller 160-330 Shulman 160-126 Friedberg 160330 Kahn 160330 Callo 160330 HARRISON R. MOSELEY, Primary Examiner. 

1. A FESTOON DRAPER, WHICH COMPRISES: A GENERALLY RECTANGULAR PIECE OF FLAT DRAPERY MATERIAL HAVING A GRID REFERENCE SYSTEM IMPRINTED THEREON AT THE ENDS THEREOF FORMING A PLURALITY OF SPACED FASTENING POINTS; AND A TRUNCATED GENERALLY TRIANGULAR PIECE OF FLAT DRAPERY MATERIAL INTEGRALLY AFFIXED TO, AND BETWEEN THE ENDS OF SAID RECTANGULAR PIECE, THE SIDES OF SAID TRIANGULAR PIECE OF MATERIAL HAVING FASTENING POINTS THEREON. 